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Trump also criticized Republican leaders for not supporting his unsubstantiated claims that he won the Nov. 3 election against Democrat Joe Biden.
United States President Donald Trump speaks in the White House meeting room on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. Image: AFP
WEST PALM BEACH – US President Donald Trump lashed out at the Republican leadership in Congress on Tuesday when he faced a humiliating override of the first veto in the closing days of his term over his rejection of a defense bill.
“Weak and tired Republican ‘leadership’ will allow bad Defense Act to pass,” Trump, 74, tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he is on vacation.
“A shameful act of cowardice and total submission of weak people to big technologies,” said Trump, who vetoed the 2021 tax defense bill in part because it does not repeal Section 230, a federal law that provides liability protection to companies. Internet companies.
“Negotiate a better bill or get better leaders, NOW!” he said. “The Senate should not pass the NDAA (the National Defense Authorization Act) until it is fixed.”
Trump also criticized Republican leaders for not supporting his unsubstantiated claims that he won the Nov.3 election against Democrat Joe Biden.
“WE NEED A NEW AND ENERGY REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP,” he tweeted.
“Can you imagine if the Republicans stole a presidential election from the Democrats? All hell would break out,” he said. “The Republican leadership only wants the path of least resistance.
“Our leaders (not me, of course!) Are pathetic,” he said. “They just know how to lose! PS. I got MANY Senators and Congressmen / Congressmen Elected. I think they forgot!”
Weak and tired Republican leadership will allow the bad Defense Act to pass. Say goodbye to the termination of VITAL Section 230, its National Monuments, Forts (names!) And Treasures (inserted by Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren), 5G and our great soldiers.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2020
Can you imagine if the Republicans stole a presidential election from the Democrats? Hell would break loose! The Republican leadership wants only the path of least resistance. Our leaders (not me, of course!) Are pathetic. They only know how to lose! PS: I have a LOT of senators …
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2020
Trump’s attacks on the Republican leadership come a week before a pair of high-stakes runoff elections in Georgia that will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the Senate.
Trump is scheduled to go to the southern state on January 4 to campaign for Republican Senate candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler before the next day’s vote.
Georgia has been a trusted Republican state, but it narrowly voted for Biden in the presidential election and Perdue and Loeffler are locked in tight races with Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
‘CAMPAIGN OF CHAOS OF THE UCITEENTH HOUR’
The Democratic-controlled House on Monday voted 322-87 to override Trump’s veto on the $ 740.5 billion defense bill, with 109 members of the president’s own Republican Party breaking ranks and siding with the Democrats.
A similar motion will go before the Republican-majority Senate, where it will also have to win the support of two-thirds to override the president’s veto. A vote is expected this week.
In a statement issued after the vote, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, criticized Trump’s veto as “reckless” and called on the president to “end his campaign of last-minute chaos.”
The override of the House veto came a day after Trump gave in to pressure from both Republicans and Democrats and reluctantly signed a $ 900 billion coronavirus relief and stimulus package that he had also threatened to veto.
Trump threatened for days not to sign the COVID-19 relief and spending bill that had been drafted by his own Treasury secretary and had received broad bipartisan support in Congress.
His surprise move ran the risk of shutting down the government starting Tuesday and depriving millions of Americans of much-needed economic relief during the pandemic.
He eventually backed down under bipartisan pressure and signed the bill in Mar-a-Lago Sunday night out of sight of television cameras.
Trump’s capitulation on the COVID-19 aid bill and the impending override of the Congressional veto are the latest signs of his waning power as he prepares to leave the White House on January 20.
Including the defense bill, Trump has vetoed nine bills during his four years in the White House. Congress has not previously gathered the votes necessary to override any of its vetoes.
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